Study in motion

Further to our experiments in capturing motion, I did some drawings of a flamenco dancer from a YouTube video. She was simply gorgeous. Just pausing frame by frame I did 5 stills which I overlaid with the following results.


For those puzzled, it is meant to be 'read' left to right. At the start she is poised ready to move her arms, at the last frame she is in full motion. Interestingly, flamenco is supposed to focus more on feet tapping but there are very distinctive arm movements as well. Flamenco dancing is not fluid, it reminds me of a sleek large cat, long pauses ready to spring and then the frenzy of the kill.